Maya Prasad Bücher

Includes an excerpt from Sejal Sinha swims with sea dragons.

How much can change in a day? On one windy, stormy day in November, the Singh sisters Nidhi, Avani, Sirisha, and Rani are about to find out in this follow-up to Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things. The Songbird Inn has always been the perfect home. No one knows that better the Singh sisters. Over the past few months, the Songbird has sent its eldest, Nidhi, out of the nest for the first time, welcomed a new marriage, and protected the younger Singh sisters Avani, Sirisha, and Rani through heartbreaks and growing pains. And today the whole Singh family will support aspiring filmmaker Rani in her first film festival--if they can make it through the wind storm. Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses follows Nidhi, Avani, Sirisha, and Rani Singh over the course of one dramatic day as they each fight to make their wild wishes come true. Relationships fall apart and come together. But through it all, there's one thing the Singhs can count on: their family will always be there for each other.

Four sisters, four seasons, four flavors of romance. The Singh sisters grew up helping their father navigate the bustle of the Songbird Inn. Nestled on dreamy and drizzly Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest, the inn's always been warm and cozy and filled with interesting guests--the perfect home. But things are about to heat up now that the Songbird has been named the Most Romantic Inn in America. Nidhi has everything planned out--until a storm brings a wayward tree crashing into her life one autumn . . . and along with it, an intriguing construction worker and a yearning for her motherland. Suddenly, she's questioning everything she thought she wanted. Avani can't sit still. If she does, her grief for Pop, their dad's late husband, will overwhelm her. So she keeps moving as much as she can, planning an elaborate Winter Ball in Pop's memory. Until a blizzard traps her in a barn with the boy she accidentally stood up and has been actively avoiding ever since. Sirisha loves seeing the world through her camera, but her shyness prevents her from stepping out from behind the lens. Talking to girls is such a struggle! When a pretty actress comes to the Songbird with her theater troupe, spring has sprung for Sirisha--if only she can find the words. Rani is a hopeless romantic through and through. After gently nudging her sisters to open their hearts, she is convinced it's finally her turn to find love. When two potential suitors float in on a summer breeze, Rani is swept up in grandeur to match her wildest Bollywood dreams. But which boy is the one she's meant to be with? Ultimately, the magic of the Songbird Inn leads the tight-knit Singh sisters to new passions and breathtaking kisses--and to unearth the truest versions of themselves. -- Provided by the publisher